Hello again. I got the cookie matter taken care of, but I'd like to be able to have one perl script check to see if another perl script is working without a 500 error. I've seen it done before, but source code was not free.

Not sure I understand what you are trying to do here. If you could possibly be a little more specific it would help. To keep nasty 500 errors from happening in most cases all you have to do is put <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans serif">code:</font><HR>

use CGI::Carp qw[fatalsToBrowser];</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> at the top of your script. Please note: This will not stop Malformed headers from producing a 500 error.